Our research aimed to obtain the knowledge necessary for smooth execution of course portfolio program contributing to the curriculum development. We developed the program for curriculum development using course portfolio and introduced this program to the department that plans to re-design the curriculum. By analyzing the process of re-designing curriculum, we found that course portfolio can become an effective resource for building the curriculum. Course portfolio enabled to build the curriculum based on the evidence obtained from teaching. Faculty can share their planned curriculum, how and what they taught. However, experienced curriculum, what student learn, was insufficient due to the lack of experience and methodology in learning evaluation.

The research through the text mining approach aims to illustrate the differences of the sentencing process between professional judges and lay-judges (so-called "saiban-in") and also between sentencing death penalty and life imprisonment. The source cases are those resulting death penalty or life imprisonment for 10 years around introducing the saiban-in system. Findings: 1) Planning, manner and results of the crimes are of characteristic indexes in terms of co-occurrence and frequency. 2) Three axes from manner toward circumstances before and after, and then sentiment of the victim or the social influence is to fix. 3) The text mining approach is applicable to sentencing statements, as well.